Beez_Tiger
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ATTENTION! 30$ and 15$ tier will go away.
🕑 Added 2022-04-30 00:52:53 +0000 UTCIntroduction and the reasons
Hey everyone, I must sadly inform you that from next month onwards things will drastically change a lot in my patreon. As you know, i’ve been able to keep a pretty consistent routine through the last three years with a page per week for both comics, Cam Friends, and BF from Outer Space. But, as some might know (mostly, the 30$ patrons, who i have tried to keep more informed due to them being the ones most affected when i get a delay of some kind), in the middle of last year i had some personal issues in my life that hit me hard emotionally. Those issues, luckily haven’t gotten worse, but they haven’t change that much, and most of them have a lot to do with my artistical and mental stability.
Both comics started as pretty chill projects, during that time i didn’t know much about what to charge or not to charge per tier, primarily due to me not being American, i live in Argentina with a pretty unstable economy. That fact mixed with the feeling (completely personal perception tho) that not much people seeming to read my comics, has made me corner myself into a complete “Mr Robot” mental process, understanding kinda late, that maybe my tiers were expensive, but afraid of lowering them and not being able to keep gaining the same amount of money i needed in exchange for the amount of work and time i’ve been having to invest in both comics. The mental processes has gone from trying to go quick with the pages of the comic, so all the people putting money into it wouldn’t have to wait long for the big events of the plot (yeah, if i could, i would have done this comic lasting longer than currently planned), as much as trying to improve on my art since chapter 2, despite the fact that, when i put too much pressure on myself, my style can get real…real ugly…i appreciate your support, but i honestly see many pages of my comics like “ugh, if this looks real ugly for sure”…which is a horrible sensation to feel!
The constant feeling of anxiety, mental self punishment and mental fear, all attributed to completely personal assumpions towards my comics or what should i do with personal issues in my life, has ruined my drawing experience for sure. Despite the comics starting as a loving project, sadly, with all this emotions attributed at them, i have to be honest saying that i haven’t felt fully happy putting so much effort into them in a long while. It is hard to put this much time and mental stress into something i can’t help but feel could look much better, but somehow can't seem to find the time or the mental state to improve it.
It is interesting to see my comic in retrospective, and notice that, even when i planned the plot real far ahead of time, all the fucked up mental issues that the characters go through seems to be a reflection of my own mental mess i’ve been puting myself into (no, i didn't throw a bully to a well, don't worry haha).
Right now, i need to take a break that gives me back my passion of drawing, as much as also giving myself some opportunities to do something else aside of drawing, whatever helps me stop the mental web that sometimes i find myself caught into, cause after all, both Projects has left me in a pretty anti-social state…during the pandemic it wasn’t a problem and maybe it was even a plus…but now it’s starting to become a real issue for me.
I need to put a lot of my personal stuff involving my life in order, and my obsession on keeping consistent with these comics has been an impediment.
What will change from now on:
The 15$ and 30$ tiers will go away, and from now on, you’ll be able to see one page ahead for 1$ two for 5$ and three for 10$ of both comics. Once the 10$ tier catches up to pages that are currently on the 30$ tier (which probably take like two or three months), i’ll possibly take out the 10$ tier, and will only leave in the 1$ and 5$ tiers, publishing only 2 pages of cam friends per month, while the BF from outer space comic will be either paused or quickly finished in one chapter. There’s stiiiill a small chance that i might work ahead on cam friends pages as i’ve done in some occasions before, enough to come back to the previous tiers, making this more like a long pause or a rest than a complete change of routine, but with what i explained before, that option seems pretty unlikely. These progressive steps will be done to not fully affect all the people that have been puting money into the expensive tiers for all this time, so, if they want to, have the freedom of not supporting on the 10$ tier for pages they already saw.
Commission tier:
i’ll be opening slots for commissions through patreon, for 120$ for full colored and shadowed OCS, with a flat or really simple background (maybe laso a 200$ for two characters, still haven't decided it). Of course, there will be fetishes i won’t draw due to these comms being posted on patreon, to give patrons more material aside of the few pages ahead that will be published from now on. There’s also the chance that with this “artistic freedom” i could make more independent illustrations to share on Patreon, after all, doing the same characters for more than three years hasn’t help with my appreciation of drawing either.
Don’t worry, even if it takes me a while, i’ll finish Cam Friends. Despite with all of what i described, I still feel the need of doing the wholesome ending i had in mind.
Thank you all, to everyone that has helped me allow this to become my main job for so long,( it is hard to try to live with a regular job in this country). I wanted to keep putting effort into it at least until I finish the entire Cam friends comic, but i’m honestly mentally burned out and i hope you can undertand this.
Again, thank you everyone so much for all the support you have given me, even when my tiers were a bit too much for what i was offering: a comic with sometimes a pretty inconsistent drawing style or pretty messy plot rythm (not mentioning the lack of lewdies on the main comic, or my terrible spelling in many of the pages).
Thanks a lot
